During the XB-1's historic flight on Tuesday—its 12th test flight overall—the aircraft stayed supersonic for around four minutes before breaking the sound barrier two more times during the same outing ...

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When legendary pilot Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier and flew the Bell X-1 past Mach 1 in 1947, it was the greatest aviation milestone ever achieved at that time. These days, however, reaching ...

The Boeing 737 has been around since the 1960s and is now in its fourth generation, but as with other commercial jetliners it takes more than a single number to pin down the 737's top speed. When an ...

MILAN — Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound during a 24-mile leap through the stratosphere more than a decade ago, was killed in a crash ...